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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






2. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






3. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






4. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






5. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






6. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






7. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






8. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






9. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






10. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






11. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






12. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






13. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






14. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






15. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






16. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






17. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






18. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






19. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






20. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






21. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






22. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






23. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






24. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






25. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






26. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






27. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






28. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






29. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






30. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






31. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






32. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






33. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






34. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






35. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






36. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






37. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






38. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






39. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






40. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






41. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






42. A poem that tells a story.






43. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






44. The main character of a literary work.






45. A four line stanza in a poem.






46. A short saying with a moral.






47. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






48. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






49. A character struggles against some outside force.






50. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.